· Private foundation
The Michael Gordon Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k35 grants · $558k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FONTBONNE HALL ACADEMY (RC) | $30,000 |
| XAVERIAN SCHOOL | $28,125 |
| ST EDMUND PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL | $28,000 |
| NOTRE DAME ACADEMY | $27,500 |
| NOTRE DAME SCHOOL OF MANHATTAN | $27,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| CATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| LA SALLE ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| CARDINAL SPELLMAN HIGH SCHOOL | $21,050 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| BAY RIDGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL (IND) | $20,000 |
| ST JOHN'S PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| SAINT SAVIOUR HIGH SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| STATEN ISLAND ACADEMY (IND) | $15,000 |
| CRISTO REY BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL (RC) | $13,200 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 87% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CRCRISTO REY NEW YORK HIGH SCHOOL6× · 2019–2024 · $90k · revenue +37%
- BRBAY RIDGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL4× · 2019–2022 · $60k · revenue +42%
- SISTATEN ISLAND ACADEMY6× · 2019–2024 · $58k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- RERYKEN EDUCATIONAL CENTERone grant, 2019 · $18k
- HAHEBREW ACADEMY FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN INCone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +6%
- GBGILLEN BREWER SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -22%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Luria academy is a child-centered environment dedicated to academic excellence and a sophisticated knowledge of jewish text and jewish heritage. located in the prospect heights neighborhood of brookly, luria academy is a jewish…
The Vincent Smith School is a co-ed, independent, special education school for grades ones through twelve, serving Nassau, Suffolk, and New York City students. The School specializes in students with various learning issues.
Students are prepared to meet the needs of an ever changing technological and global society. we use the latest technology in our classrooms as an integral part of its curriculum approach. this approach is based on the latest research in…
We create confident learners who lead lives of intellectual curiosity, self-knowledge, and social responsibility.
The robert louis stevenson school's mission is to provide a college preparatory program for bright adolescents who have not reached their potential in more traditional school settings. the program provides every student individually…
To provide an academically exceptional education to students grade 9 through 12 in a warm, supportive, and nurturing environment.
Compass charter school is a safe and nurturing educational environment that honors the individuality of each learner. by engaging in a process of inquiry, our graduates will be equipped with the necessary skills to lead fulfilling personal…
Brooklyn independent is a 6th-8th private middle school with a fierce belief in diversity and inclusion. we specialize in middle school learning by balancing high rigor and high experiential learning. our sliding-scale tuition model…
Education - private school grades preschool through twelfth
Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
Hillbrook provides an extraordinary educational experience that fosters a love of learning in our students and helps them to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to achieve their highest individual potential in school and in life.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cristo Rey Brooklyn High School and the most unlike its peers is Preston High School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 80 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 59 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Partnership for Inner City Education Dba Partnership Schools · Brooklyn Benevolent Society · Mutual of America Foundation · The Thomas and Agnes Carvel Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Theresa & Edward O'Toole Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Richmond County Savings Foundation · Al & Peggy Dematteis Family Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Michael Gordon Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.